Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781846311826
Subjects: Hispanic american literature (spanish), history and criticism
Description: This book instructs readers who want to feel their ways through disciplinary conventions towards new and clearer understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Literature makes a difference to the ways that these questions are asked and explored. A cavalcade of writers has written about empire, femininity, Spain, pain, wounds, war and love. Symptoms of imperial panic abound in their pages, very frequently manifesting directly or indirectly in allusions to Spain and things Spanish.